Green Eggs: a traumatic childhood memory

[absinthe at mad.scientist.com]

 "Neil Ward" <neilward at d...> wrote:

> Okay, I'm going to regret this: Green eggs?  Please tell me they 
have
> parsley in them and not mould.

This just brought back something I thought was forever buried in my 
mind. In the first grade, my teacher went on a Dr. Seuss craze. We 
read "Green Eggs and Ham", "Horton hears a Who", etc. for a week or 
so. At the end of the craze, she threw a little Seuss meal for the 
class, which featured "green" eggs and ham. The ham part wasn't bad. 
But the eggs! She added blue food coloring to SCRAMBLED eggs. They 
were "green"... a disgusting greeny-yellow "green". I remember one 
kid had enough nerve to taste the stuff, but it completely put me off 
scrambled eggs for sometime.

I think it would have been better if she added finely minced parsley 
to those eggs rather than the food coloring.

:-(Milz